The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-10


there in March and remains till April.
She returns and is ct home with her
husband and father during the sum-
mer. Up 10 this time there has been
nothing to disturb the friendly rela.
tons, and the two families get along
pleasantly together. She regards Tom
Dalton as a gentleman and treats him
as such. Poor woman; how che was
deceived. Tom Dalton complained to
Mrs. Polk OF his home. SAID be was
not treated right at home. Said he
would give anything in the world il
he was loved at home like Russell
was loved at his home. What WON.
ans heart would not have gone out
Ia sympathy, when he id he had no
one TO care for him at home. She did
sympathiz, with him, and tried To
cheer him. And the husband be-
came interested In him and took him
around 10 places OF amusement, until
he was disguised by hearing from his
polluted lips something drop.
We do not know what, but
it was sufficient to make the
the manly heart recoil in disgust. As
yet he said nothing to his wife. She
took him under her care and tried to
dispel some Of the sorrow from his
brow; tried to encourage him to bet.
ter things; gave him good advice
about getting a situation No cloud
had as yet settled over the happy
home. No serpent had cIawle1 over
the domestic hearth and left lis Shiny
trail aud got its life crushed out as it
crawled, but all was peace and sun
chine. Ths mother and aunt had
seen nothing'wrong. But alb, horrors I!
Mrs. Polk sends pitcher OF butter
milk, and the motner and aunt look
in the butterEilk and they s3e-ah,
what did they see in that bu;termilk &?
They saw treasons; they saw clan
desline meetings, and bargains for
buggy rides aud ass enstions. They
saw ruiz and wickedness and infamy
all in the buttermi K. All, the but.
termilkl Oh, the wicked buttermilk !
She was sending James Tom butter
milk, and Jim Tom will be led off
and ruined forever by the buttermiik.
Now they begin to hear-revsr till
now; but new they can hear all
sorts OF bargains, bargains to g
riding, bargains TO meet at houses OF
i'll fame. Bargains made on the house
top, in the hearing OF everyone, Brother
Peters, you know how it is; is this the
way those sort OF bargains are geper.
ally made, or do they whisper to each
other when no one is lookingf Do
people make these sort OF ba'giins
from one window to another, in broad
open daylight, with two families In
hearing distance2 "I'll be aunt, III
be mother and I'll be sweetheart to
you" Here is the trinity, E pluribus
slapped herself and said she
was built from the ground up. Do you
believe it2 DON'T and don't be-
lieve you believe one word of it. Who
ever heard before Of an aunt, with or
gray hairs, making an assign alton with
her nephew; mother making an
asignation with her eonP And then
hose delicacies, worse than the but
getting worse and worse.
How dare she send Jim Tom delica-
lies? The aunt runs to tell the
"0h, that horrid woman has
,ent Jim Tom a waiter OF delica.
lies" and the old woman comes
ike an angry hen defend
ing her shanghai brooG, aud
the wicked viands from Jim
Tom, and she runs 10 the window and
throws 1t into the street, and no doubt
Tim Tom on this occasion was like
Walkers pig-you know Walker had
10 pull his pigs ear of to get him to
he trough and pull his tail off to get
him away, and when she has thrown
The good things out of the window she
calls vut to Mrs. Polk, 81 want you
10 stop sending those jim cracks and
linn dRnders and buttermilk TO our Jim
Tom" But presently moving ii me
comes, that tins Of al! times when it
Is dangerous to provoke a woman,
hat time when men generally make
themselves as scarce as possible. But
The is moving, and abe is mad. She
must have some one to scold and quar-
rel at. Oh, where is Jim Tom. Jim
Tom can't be found. She goes to look
ior Jim Tom, bnt his door is locked.
Alb, she thinks have got him now.
his voice almost to a whis-
PERI She creeps around to the win
iowH OF jim Tom. She looks into
The window aud beheld Jim
rom embracing, not Mrs. Polk,
nut a good square meal
Then passing on to other parts OF
he testimony the speaker continued:
This truthful Jim Tom says he was
.bout to run away with her twice be-
ore marriage, and his mother and
.unt say that he never saw her until
lfter she was q married woman.
Again, he tells Officer Hedrick that
The went with him to New York and
Ieduced him there. His mother and
lunt say that he did not 20, to New
York. He says he was criminally in
innate with her at time when the
doctors tell you that she was wearing
IN instrument that she could not re-
move herself, and therefore rendering
what he says to be impossible. Now
here is one thing l want to call your
special attention to. 1t is this: You
notice in these forgeries they call Mrs.
Folks letters they make Mrs. Polk
all her husband Rowdy. They had
heard her call him something like
hat, but ii turns out that she called
aim Rowley, and not Rowdy, and to
ny mind this ia conclusive that Mrs.
Polk could not have written them.
They bring Mrs. Folks picture and
Jay it has far away look; they tell
you that while she was sitting before
hat awful thing that takes the feat
Tres 80 accurately that she was think
ng Of her darling blue eyed boy, her
larling dimpled boy; that she WAS
afraid the cowboys would eat up her
precious boy that it broke her heart to
part with, and yet, strange to say, at
he very time abe was breaking her
heart about his absence he was here
n town, according to their own
proof.
Adjourning hour having arrived,
,ourt now took recess to 2 O'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 9 O'Clock Col. CAN'T, continuing